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  • How it's Made: Tower Defense - a Game in Excel 2010

      This blog post is brought to you by Karen Cheng a Program Manager on the Excel team.     In today's post, we'll show you how the arcade game Tower Defense was created in an Excel spreadsheet (see a video of the game being played here ).  In this game, creeps move toward your castle. You must defend it by placing towers which shoot at the creeps. The more creeps you kill, the more money you get to buy and upgrade your towers. To play, you'll need - · To download the...

  • 10 Days for Office 2010 Series – Reviewing the Dow Jones Industrial in Excel 2010

    Today’s post was written by Excel MVP Nate Oliver. Excel 2010 presents traditional numerical analysts with new and old tools; today we’ll explore two of them. The difference is that the first shall be what we call qualitative, and the second, quantitative. As a real-world example, on a really hot day, qualitative could mean hot, while quantitative could mean 100F. We shall explore both, with Excel 2010, with respect to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). Read more here... Read More...

  • Conditional Formatting Rules Simplified

    Thanks to Amit Velingkar for writing this blog post. Conditional formatting is a popular feature and is a great way to easily identify cells with a range that meet some criteria. However, users often want to create conditional formatting rules that go beyond comparing a cell’s value to a single value or a single cell reference - row or column comparisons are commonly requested operations. In this blog post, we will learn how to use relative references in conditional formatting rules to make such...

  • More Conditional Formatting Features in Excel 2010

    In this blog post I’ll walk through some of the new Conditional Formatting features in Excel 2010 such as: Cross-Sheet References Robust Error Handling Performance Enhancements Cross-Sheet References In Excel 2010, you can create conditional formatting with references to a different sheet on the workbook. This means that you no longer need to copy or link your data to the same sheet when using conditional formatting. For Example, let us look at the monthly sales data for a bookstore chain. The bookstore...

  • Data Bar Improvements in Excel 2010

    Data Bars are a popular type of conditional formatting that was introduced in Excel 2007. The basic idea of data bars is that Excel draws a bar in each cell whose length corresponds to the value of the cell relative to the other cells in the selected range. Data bars are a great way of seeing trends in your data. In our example, we have the historical Sales and Profit amounts for a fictional bookstore. The last column has the percentage of increase in profits when compared to the previous year. We...

  • Icon Set Improvements in Excel 2010

    Thanks to Amit Velingkar, a Program Manager on the Excel team, for putting together the next few posts on conditional formatting. In Excel 2007, we introduced Icon Sets - a new type of conditional formatting. The basic idea is that Excel draws an icon in each cell representing the value of the cell relative to the other cells in the selected range. Icons sets are a great way to create groups of similar data as a part of your data analysis. In the example below, we have the historical Sales and Profit...

  • Modifying Conditional Formatting Color Ranges in Excel 2007

    Today’s authors, Amit Velingkar, a Program Manager on the Excel team, and Bob Silverstein, a User Experience Researcher on the Excel team, talk about creating professional looking Color Ranges in Excel. Introduction: My fellow PM on Excel, Robin Wakefield, wrote a blog article on how to create professional looking charts in Excel 2007. Continuing with the same theme, we will investigate the idea of tweaking Color Ranges in Excel 2007. We will start with a default Conditional Formatting Color Range...

  • Video Tip: Conditional Formatting and Data Validation

    Today's author: Sam Radakovitz, a Program Manager on the Excel team that enjoys creating VBA applications in Excel. A bit ago, Joseph had a blog post about community clips on OfficeLabs.com , so for this post, I wanted to take advantage of the video demonstration and do the post via community clips. The topic is an Excel tip about using conditional formatting and data validation to turn on and off the formatting on the sheet without needing VBA code. The video can be found here and is also embedded...

  • Using Excel 2007 for Progress Tracking in the Classroom

    Today's author, Danny Khen, a Program Manager on the Excel team, discusses a solution he recently built using Excel. The Manual Spreadsheet Spreadsheets are the bread and butter of running the business world, where PCs are ubiquitous. The possibility, indeed even the need, to use spreadsheets in an environment where access to a computer is not taken for granted seems absurd to us, as business users and technology professionals. We do still print reports for some output scenarios, such as executive...

  • Tracking Split Costs

    Today’s Author: Joe Chirilov , a program manager on the who has done a lot of work on both the Excel and Excel Services teams. Joe is going to discuss a spreadsheet he recently built using Excel 2007. Recently a large group of friends and I went on a multi-city tour of Europe that lasted a couple weeks. We had a blast, but that’s a conversation for another day. There was a lot of planning that went into this trip and responsibilities for booking different legs of the trip were spread out across the...

  • Data Bars – Feedback Please

    Today’s author: Scott Ruble, the program manager who leads the charting and visualization efforts in Excel. Scott is looking for some feedback on potential changes to data bar behaviour. Excel 2007 has a conditional formatting feature that graphically displays bars in a cell to represent the value of the cell. This feature is called Data Bars. You can see an example of this by using the following steps: In Excel 2007, enter 1, 2, 3 in cells A1, A2, and A3 respectively. Select cells A1:A3. From the...
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